Customer service departments cost money to staff and operate, but the most successful companies have realized they can be a strong source of revenue, too.
Instead of looking at them as the place where people go to complain about their purchases or an unsatisfactory experience, they recognize...
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Data and analytics have revolutionised the way companies operate. When used intelligently and securely, data simplifies company operations, informs decision-making, and fosters more robust customer relationships. Yet, the legal industry struggles to follow suit.
There is a wealth of untapped...
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If LinkedIn was a conference instead of a social media platform, it would be the kind where the best part is walking out of a keynote or breakout session and having coffee with a group of fellow attendees.
At any given moment, your LinkedIn feed is probably filled with people sharing stories about...
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“Need help or support?” product brochures used to say. “We’re only a phone call away!”
There are still plenty of numbers you can dial that will take you directly into a contact centre filled with expert agents who can solve customers’ biggest challenges.
Increasingly, though, those companies are...
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There isn’t a definitive number that qualifies a group of people as a “base” of customers, just as there’s no rule on how large the group has to become.
The usual assumption about growing a company is that you want to amass as many customers as possible. The more infinite the addressable market...
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You may agree with the notion that “life is a marathon, not a sprint,” but sometimes selling can feel like a particularly long race to the finish line.
Unlike a sprint or a marathon, of course, the journey from opportunity to a closed deal doesn’t usually begin with the excitement of a “3-2-1 go!”...
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You might switch up the place you shop for clothes, groceries or the latest gadget, but we usually choose a financial institution in the hopes of a long, loyal relationship.
Some of us still have a bank account that was set up when we were children. We might choose the same financial institution...
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Using a CRM may be a journey, but all businesses, particularly small and medium-sized ones, want to end up at the same destination: a place of growth based on more (and larger) sales.
This can be challenging in large enterprises that have huge sales teams, but that’s more an issue of training and...
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Just as the last of your items gets scanned at the checkout in a store, an associate might say something like, “That it for today?”
This is a truncated version of a question they’re asking customers all day long, which is, “Is there anything else you would like to buy from us today?”
If you chatted...
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